Olin welcomes new faculty

Melody Walker wrote the following for the Olin Blog.

Women are on the rise at Olin Business School. Five tenure-track female professors join the faculty this fall in the areas of marketing, organizational behavior, and finance. Olin also welcomes a female visiting professor in economics from Carnegie Mellon. And on the student side of the desk, the MBA Class of 2019 is reporting an uptick in the gender category with 39% women.

“We are pleased to welcome so many talented newcomers to the Olin community,” said Vice Dean Todd Milbourn. “We will all benefit from the talent and knowledge they bring to our educational mission.”

Pictured above left to right, front row: Kang, Huang, Hardin; center row: Perfecto, Liao, organizational behavior postdoc; top row: Scott, Ruttan. Photo by Jerry Naunheim.

Ashley Hardin, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavioral

• PhD, Business Administration, 2017, University of Michigan
• Prior to Olin: Instructor, University of Michigan
• Research Interests: Quantitative Social Research, Quantitative Social Research, Social Psychology

Xing Huang, Assistant Professor of Finance

• PhD, Economics, 2013, University of California at Berkeley
• Prior to Olin: Assistant Professor of Finance, Michigan State University
• Research Interests: Behavioral Finance, Asset Pricing, Investor Behavior, Market Efficiency, Information Acquisition, Mutual Funds, Household Finance

Karam Kang, Visiting Professor of Economics

• PhD, Economics, 2012, University of Pennsylvania
• Prior to Olin:  Assistant Professor of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University
• Research Interests: Political Economy, Industrial Organization, Environmental Economics

Zhenyu Liao, Postdoc for Organizational Behavior

• PhD, Management and Organization, 2017, National University of Singapore
• Prior to Olin: Research Assistant, National University of Singapore
• Research Interests: Leadership Behavior and Dynamic, Event Perspective, Interpersonal Interaction

Hannah Perfecto, Assistant Professor of Marketing

• PhD, Business Administration, 2017, University of California, Berkeley
• Prior to Olin: Teaching Assistant, 2017, University of California, Berkeley
• Research Interests: Consumer Behavior, Behavioral Decision Theory, Metacognition, Field Experiments, Research Replicability and Reliability

Rachel Ruttan, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior

• PhD, Management and Organizations, 2017, Northwestern University
• Prior to Olin: Instructor, Management and Organizations, Negotiations, Northwestern University
• Research Interests: Compassion and Prosocial Behavior, Values and Moral Judgment, Emotion

Sydney Scott, Assistant Professor of Marketing

• PhD, Marketing and Psychology, 2017, University of Pennsylvania
• Prior to Olin: Teaching Assistant, 2017, University of Pennsylvania
• Research Interests: Morality and Consumption, Judgment and Decision Making, Preferences for Natural Products